And Keating thought suddenly that Francon did not really believe it and knew that Keating did not believe it, and yet they were both contented, bound tighter together by a common method and a common guilt.

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He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce.

But like all pioneers he was still bound by the inherited prejudices of the past, by the sentimentality of the middle class from which he came.